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Diane L. Major
Hope is what ambition is made of.
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Depression
Perhaps the most honest and non-maudlin, non-writerly personal essay (and comic) on
depression
I've ever seen. No excesses of melodrama, nor appeals for pity and attention. Just a description, and a very clear, good one. Unique.
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